Around the Farm: August 4

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Around the Farm takes a look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's games.

Cord Phelps-2B, Columbus: 3-5, 2 2B, RBI, 2 R. Phelps just keeps on hitting. The 3rd round pick in 2008 out of Stanford has put up a AAA line of .340/.412/.537. He has more extra base hits in his 43 games at Columbus (21) than he did in 53 games in Akron earlier this year (13). He has 17 walks for the Clippers against 22 strikeouts, so he's being selective in getting the pitch he wants and driving it. No doubt about it, Phelps has himself in line for a shot at the 2B job in Cleveland coming out of Spring Training next year.

Jason Kipnis-2B, Akron: 2-4, HR (7), 3B, RBI, R. Kipnis had Akron's only 2 hits last night, and started a 4-6-3 DP. There are a lot of organizations who would love to have one legit 2B prospect in their system, and we have two pretty good ones right now in Phelps and Kipnis.

GiovannyUrshela-3B, Mahoning Valley: 3-5, 3 1B. Urshela is just 18, and won't turn 19 until after the season. He's hitting .280 for the Scrappers, but needs to refine his approach a little with 8 walks against 20 strikeouts.

Luigi Rodriguez-OF, DSL Indians: 2-2, 2 1B. Rodriguez with the only two hits yesterday for the DSL Indians in a shortened game.